Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social Profile picture
Makes things work in .NET/Win32/x64/C#/SQL/Delphi. Surviving rectal cancer. Married a cancer survivor. Responsible for brother with IQᐸ50. @AdestMusica member.

Oct 19, 2024, 5 tweets

@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself.

Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old "ambulant" care took 2 hours and then "it was OK".

@hhariri Weekly I try to figure out what happened then hours re-explaining "treat him like he is: mentally a 3 year old with autism in a full grown body that seems to speak Dutch very well, but does not really understand what he says. So what he says is different from what he wants/needs"

@hhariri And for "normal work", the life long job is to keep explaining that doing things right the first time saves a lot of effort.

@hhariri And yes, there is hindsight when at the time you did things, you didn't know there was or would become a better way, or that the current situation changed.

Those are valid reasons for redoing things later, but not valid reasons for not even trying to do it right the first time.

@hhariri @threadreaderapp please unroll for Wayback Machine archival.

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